As many as 225 tourism accommodation units in the state will become ‘plastic free’ from Wednesday as part of the ‘Clean Kerala Initiative’ project of Responsible Tourism Mission under the state tourism department. It is being implemented in association with Kerala Travel Mart (KTM) Society.

These accommodation units, including resorts, hotels, homestays and house boats have decided to exclude 19 plastic items like carry bags, tray, disposable cups, bottles, straw, plates, cups, cling film, thermocol, bowls, flags, sheets used for food parcelling, spoons, fruit and vegetable punnets, juice packets, PVC flex materials and food parcelling plastic containers, said an offical release issued on Tuesday.

These accommodation units, including 30 resorts, 35 homestays, 30 house boats and 130 hotels across the state, have already handed over the self-declaration form to RT Mission. All hotels, resorts and homestays and 20 house boats in Kumarakom have joined hands with RT Mission in this venture. Joining the initiative are 40 units in Kottayam, 15 in Ernakulam, 20 in Kasaragod, 32 in Idukki, 38 in Wayanad, 32 in Kozhikode, 15 in Alappuzha, five in Thrissur, 10 in Kollam, 12 in Thiruvananthapuram and six in Malappuram.

As part of the ‘Clean Kerala Initiative’ the RT Mission had organized a two-day workshop for tourism industry partners. The decision to make the tourism destinations of state as plastic-free and green certified was taken in the workshop. Tourism minister Kadakampally Surendran said the aim was to make nine select destinations 100% plastic-free through the project. Kumarakom could be declared as the first plastic free destination of Kerala in 2020 itself, said tourism secretary Rani George.

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